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"Section F, G and H"


Feel (?), n. 1.
Feeling; perception. [R.]


To intercept and have a more kindly feel of its
genial warmth.
Hazlitt.


2. A sensation communicated by touching;
impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has
a greasy feel.


The difference between these two tumors will be
distinguished by the feel.
S. Sharp.


Feel"er (?), n. 1.
One who, or that which, feels.


2. (Zoöl.) One of the sense
organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing
objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a
palp.


Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before
them with their feelers or antennæ.

Derham.


3. Anything, as a proposal, observation,
etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of
others; something tentative.


Feel"ing, a. 1.


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